how to pronounce fishes

/ˈfɪʃəz/

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fishes is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of fishes in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… charity is loaves and fishes loaves of …”

meanings of fishes

noun:

Multiple individual fish.
Plural of fish.
Multiple kinds of fish.

verb:

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fish.

fishes frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word fishes occurs in english on average 2.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics fishes can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that fishes can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;

2) life, nature, and living environment;